I made a little progress today. I sanded all the seams, put another layer of bondo on, resanded

and brushed on some Tamiya surface prep. It's getting there.

While waiting for the bondo to cure I worked on a different phaser.

Mach71:That looks great! Is there anyway you can make a mold off the parts from that phasor and cast the detail parts you need for the ones you're working on now?

BTW: There are still a few rough places on the D-7 but you have to look really close to see them and I'm tired of fumbling around with this thing. I went ahead and pre-shaded her with two shades of grey and then did some streaking of light grey from bow to stern. I think she looks ok, I'm putting the gloss on now and hopefully will get her decaled over the weekend.

Thats a real nice D-7 Gamera!

Sadly I can't use that phaser. It's the old AMT exploration set

phaser. It's 1/3 scale.

I think I have a plan for all the detail parts. I won't get anything done

for a few days, work is rearing its head.

Love the classic Klingon ships

Hi all 

Well I found what I wanted now to find time to get busy on it 

Got some minor plans for it   

Mach and Gam...lovin' the ST goodness going on...home stretch on both projects, eh? Cool Gundam SLW!!

At chili con 3 regionals so won't be updating pics until monday. 11 models entered, only 2 major repairs, droped 122mm and broke axle and hub so drilling, pin, cya fixed. My un unimog lost entire front differential. 3 questions on what category.

Good luck....let us know how it all works out!!

Thanks guys!

SLW: I've seen a few of those built up and it's a really neat little model- looking forward to seeing what you do with yours.

Wayne: OUCH, that sucks! One reason I hate trying to take stuff to shows etc.

Gamera

Thanks guys!

SLW: I've seen a few of those built up and it's a really neat little model- looking forward to seeing what you do with yours.

Wayne: OUCH, that sucks! One reason I hate trying to take stuff to shows etc.

Hey Wayne!! Great to hear these results!! Very good news...well done and contrats!!

Yeah, big congrads Wayne!

Rob, that Cylon Raider is a real home run!  Nice work!

Mach71, the Phaser looks great!  It looks like a movie prop.  Well done!

Gamera, the D-7 is looking fantastic so far.  I like the streaky weathering and fading on it.

I'm looking forward to some of these Macross/Robotech kits.  I have a couple of the ARII 1/100 kits in my stash...a Valkyrie and a Gerwalk.

Here's an ARII 1/100 VF-1D that I did a few years ago:

Congrats, Waynec!  

I wanted to go and I meant to go but I just couldn't get the time off from work.  I could have called in sick but I really hate to do that(I was "on call" Fri, Sat and Sun).  I really wanted to see how my F-15E and F-16 Barak would have fared.  Oh well, maybe next year.  

BTW, where will it be next year?

thank you. really jazzed me up.

i presume the same place. me and 1 other guy went from my denver club and 5 guys went from my col spgs club. my frau went with me and visited friends on sat. i haven't seen the stats yet but it was bigger than last year by a nice margin. about have the room was airplanes. not a lot of ships but 3 large scratch-built wooden sailing ships, which i don't think should be allowed. (full disclosure i am the newsletter editor of the big wood ship club in denver).

oih i also picked up a seaquest seep ocean transport

Waynec, did you take any pics?  Are there any albums posted yet that you know of?

I know a hand full of our Phoenix chapter guys went out there.

Fly-n-hi

Waynec, did you take any pics?  Are there any albums posted yet that you know of?

I know a hand full of our Phoenix chapter guys went out there.

took a bunch of general pics, not a lot of specifics. i probably met some of them and didn't know. i will be vegging tonight catching up on GBs, pics, newsletters, etc and will let you know. i s=don't know if ASM has any posted or any stats yet. will let you know when i know.

my friend is going to help me light up my T-2s

Congratulations, Waynec! I’m so new to modeling that I actually didn't know events like this existed. I just looked into it and found a couple coming up in my area this fall (one in Poughkeepsie, NY and one in Danbury, CT) and I think I’m going to try to make it out to one or both. Congrats again - very cool! 

spent 3 hours getting the alpha fighter ready for for blue paint. All taped up and ready. Did a bit of test with CN Blue from rail line paints,

wouldn't have been so bad if the thing wasn't so small. it is about half the size of my 1/72 scale P-38

Thanks guys, decaling is about half done now.

Fly-ni-hi: Never seen the Robotech series but I've seen some very cool hardware from it - very nice work there!

Shiv: That's a pile of masking- looking forward to the results!

Holy masking Shiv...keep at it. Gonna be cool for sure.

Still cleaning, puttying, sanding.

I've gotten my hands on everything I need except for the emitter tip.

I don't think it will be a big issue though.

I got one coat of grey primer on the P1. and stuck everything I have

together with some tape to see how everything will look together.

Here's a little progress on the X-Wing.  I've painted the inner part of the engines black and I've attached the s-foil panels with the scratch details:

The engine areas will be getting more paint later.  I just wanted to get the areas painted black now because it would have been hard to paint in those recessed areas once the s-foils were assembled.

Here's how they look with the s-foils in a natural pose:

Mach71...whataya using for an emitter tip?

That X-Wing is looking excellent. Really stoked about this one!

mach71

Still cleaning, puttying, sanding.

I've gotten my hands on everything I need except for the emitter tip.

I don't think it will be a big issue though.

I got one coat of grey primer on the P1. and stuck everything I have

together with some tape to see how everything will look together.

so this is the concealed carry version of the phaser.

Rob, I think I'll try and turn the emitter tip from a wood dowel or plastic rod.

I'm doing the stunt version and that one did not have a clear emitter tip.

Waynec,

The concealed version is generally considered to be the phaser 1. The small

grey unit on the top. I'm doing the phaser 2 unit. That combines the phaser 1

and the handle/power unit. Does that help?

Fly-n-hi, I'm loving your build! nice job so far.

Fly-n-hi: Yes terrific job there on the S-foils, lookin' good!

Mach71: Almost done now, I'd think the collimater unit or whatever the knob thing on the front would have been the hardest but it turned out great- the emitter shouldn't be too hard after all that!

Yeah, I'd call the little Type I, electric razor phasor, more of a concealed carry version since they did hid or attempt to hide them on a couple episodes.

I got the 1st coat of paint on. It show's I still have some work to do,

but it's starting to look nice!

There is a stubborn seam on the bottom.

Stupid Star Trek question (I'm Star Wars, but appreciate Trek): so, if you remove the small phaser from the main unit, does it render the larger unit useless or would you technically have two working phasers, one for each hand??

The way Matt Jefferies conceived it was you would have one small phaser 1 and the useless

phaser 2. So yes the larger unit  not work. The idea is that the actual beam generator was in

the small phaser and the larger unit increased the power/range/fire time.

In his personal papers he had drawings of a larger phaser 3, kind of a phaser riffle that the P-1/P-2 unit fits into.

I hope this answers your question.